Sentences with phrase «doing square paintings»

Around 1966, one year before Reinhardt died, I was in France doing square paintings that were all the same, with the same pattern repeated — a black circle on a white surface.

Not exact matches

And it was from these half - done quilt squares that I found the wall color for this room (paint post here), and this comfy family couch, and nearly everything else I've gathered here.

Before I go, a quick source list for you: - wall color: Barcelona Beige by Sherwin Williams - rug: Overstock.com - lamp: Homegoods - birdcage: Hobby Lobby - small square frame: Pottery Barn - large frame: family antique, but here are some suggestions if you'd like to paint a similar one - all the rest (books, box, large frame, chandelier) are antiques... sorry I don't have sources for those!

What other numbered squares did Penny paint red?

Looking to the other work done at and to support the Green Bank Observatory, the accomplishments of the past year include: hosting more than 2,000 visitors to view the solar eclipse, painting 84,000 square feet of the GBT, hosting 900 visitors at our annual open house (and launching 150 rockets in two hours that same day), releasing our new visitor reservations system, and hosting more than 30 film and news organizations.

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I thought about painting a checkerboard on a small square table I'm doing, but it would be more for looks because I don't even know how to play checkers.

OK, I don't think there's a Black Paint Star, since Mario doesn't paint with black in the game, nor does it have a spot in the fountain in the town square.

Its blunt nose and squared - off rear end make it look a little dorky — especially in the Blue Raspberry paint of this test car — and it doesn't have a very powerful engine or many high - tech amenities.

The press release doesn't have any incriminating evidence of this rumored super-Corvette, but it does mention that the investment will include new tooling and robots, and building a 450,000 square - foot painting facility.

Or do art jamming in Wembley Square, Gardens — pick up a paint brush and let your creativity go (no drawing or painting skill necessary).

All these things are part of me now and they inform each painting I do... I try and stay with the intensity and the emotion, the feeling, without making it ironic... Every square inch has to mean something.

I had also done a painting that was two squares on a canvas and it was divided down the middle with charcoal lines — that was the edge.

If the artist is using geometry to construct a painting, like so many since the early 1960s, it feels more like doing math than if the artist shows a square as an image floating in a field, like a character in a graphic novel.

One might expect that with a square support the components of the grid would be squares also, forming a Cartesian grid in which the two symbolic structures of Modernist formal rigor would reinforce each other, as they do in Reinhardt's black paintings.

In the blue paintings done before 1952, when he settled on a square format and a rigorously sectioned composition, every work was different.

So does the judicious hang, in which a few key works from Stella's early days pop up in the later galleries; a 1962 painting of concentric rainbow squares hangs next to a colossal 2009 assemblage of fibreglass and steel.

Discussing this series in the context of his «70s output more generally, Stella says, «The effect of doing [the Diderot paintings] «by the numbers,» so to say, gave me a kind of guide in my work as a whole... The Concentric Squares created a pretty high, pretty tough pictorial standard.

The exhibition traces all the stages of Pape's career, beginning with her square paintings, reliefs, and blocks, all done between 1954 and 1956, when Pape was a member of Grupo Frente from Rio de Janeiro, which also included Clark and Oiticica, and which initially followed the tenets of concrete art as outlined by van Doesburg.

Done by staining diluted acrylic paint onto raw, unsized canvas — a technique Mr. Noland learned from Helen Frankenthaler — they consist of concentric circles in a variety of colors centered on a square canvas.

I think this had to do with a game I loved to play with friends as a child where you would have these postcards and you'd cover them, and then, little by little, uncover a millimeter square, two millimeters square, then three millimeters, and your friend would have to guess the painting from what they could see.

I sometimes wish I painted squares because you can really get on with that, although I don't know if anyone ever asked Albers why he always painted squares.

In much the same way, the structural ambiance of Stephanie London's Mid-Century Rose (oil on linen, 2014) would seem to owe almost as much to Joseph Alber's Homage to the Square series as it does to traditional horticultural painting.

Q: Many of your paintings are in a tiny six inch square format: how and why do you like to work so small?

Then I did my biggest cow painting, which was 72 inches square.

Malevich's painted volumes on white ground — circles, cruciforms, squares — ticked along and still do, setting off those tremendously interesting conversations among artists and art historians who stood and stand agog at the implications of his mute, ineffably powerful action of visual declamation.

Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.

The dealer's commitment to him was such that, when her gallery moved to a new Los Angeles location in 1963, she designed the space to accommodate his nine - foot verticals (she did not yet realized that his new works were limited to the five - foot - square format), and installed a narrow platform of white marble along the baseboard to keep visitors at a distance from the extremely fragile paintings, whose inscrutability seemed especially capable of provoking the public.

The Courtauld Institute did particularly well, acquiring his famous oil painting Rebuilding the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square (1962)-- a highlight of the gallery's acclaimed Auerbach exhibition back in 2009 — as well as a major charcoal study by the artist.

At the Hollis Taggart Gallery make sure to see Tom Wesselman «s «Study for Bedroom Painting # 75 ″, and a monumental work titled «Breakfast in Florida», a towering titanium sculpture by Martin Willing called «Stacked Squares ``, Alfred Leslie «s «Number 5 ``, Richard Artschwager «s «Untitled (Levi's Painting) ``, and don't miss «Ocre Central» by Jesus Rafael - Soto.

The artists, who did not illegally occupy the building this time, put together paintings, sculptures, and ephemera, realized site - specific interventions, graffiti, and installations that related to Times Square or current political events, and experimented with unschooled forms of art brut for the late - capitalist times.

There is, first, the obvious fact that the elements don't really very often add up to a legible landscape (the black pentagon in Calvi looks no more like a cave than the squares in Mondrian look like skyscraper windows — that is, a confusion might be possible because of the limited number of shapes available, but everything in the intention of the painting is there to steer one away from it).

They don't need that,» Glimcher said, slapping the temporary whitewashed wall next to Josef Albers's 1967 painting «Homage to a Square.»

Reinhardt's statement that his black paintings were «the last paintings anyone can make» betrays his debt to Albers, for his works do indeed seem to conclude the investigations opened by Albers» Homage to the Square series.

At first they seem to hail from a time when Frank Stella's shaped paintings, with their repeating bands of metallic color, had painters doing everything possible to avoid conventional paint on canvas and square corners.

Two of the artist's four paintings in the sale — a black - and - white «Little Electric Chair» and a signature square canvas with four flowers — didn't find takers.

For example, If T.S. Eliot's «Prufrock» were to hang art on his perfectly appointed, four square walls, it would be Monzon's small, yet elegantly spare paintings that would surely give him, as it does us, pause.»

Jennifer Bartlett — Rhapsody Sherrie Levine — After Walker Evans Barbara Kruger — your gaze hits the side of my face Jenny Holzer — truisms Pat Steir — The Brueghel Series (A Vanitas of Style) Anne Truitt — Knights Heritage Georgia O'Keefe — Abstraction Blue Susan Rothenberg — Butterfly Judy Pfaff — Painted Forms: Recent Metal Sculpture, Installation, Whitney 1978 Lee Krasner — white squares Joan Mitchell — Chord IIV Magdalena Abakanowicz — Four on a bench Alice Aycock — Low Building with Dirt Roof Nancy Holt — Sun Tunnels Cindy Sherman — Untitled Film Stills Gorilla girls — Do women have to be naked... Maya Lin — Vietnam Memorial Alice Neal — Portrait of Andy Laurie Anderson — America Parts I — IV Rachel Whiteread — House Diane Arbus — Twins Nan Goldin — The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Sally Mann — Immediate Family Agnes Martin — Untitled Kiki Smith — Standing Linda Benglis — Artforum Advertisement Kara Walker — My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love Louise Bourgeois — spider Helen Frankenthaler — Mountains and Sea Jo Baer — Rook Jackie Winsor — Burnt Piece Eva Hesse — Repetition Nineteen

There is no plaque to identify the mural, but it was done by Josef Albers, best known for the spare, geometric paintings of his «Homage to the Square» series.

After seeing James Bishop, which is currently on view at David Zwirner (September 6 — October 25, 2014), I would urge anyone who cares about what an artist can do with paint to go and immerse themselves in this beautiful, sensitive, astringent exhibition of eleven mostly square, human - scaled paintings in oil and four small works (all are less than six inches in height and width), done in oil and crayon on paper.

Examples include square paintings done by Anuszkiewicz that he painted to further explore themes form Albers's famous series of paintings titled Homage to the Ssquare paintings done by Anuszkiewicz that he painted to further explore themes form Albers's famous series of paintings titled Homage to the SquareSquare.

What I Did On My Summer Vacation, White Columns, New York, NY; (benefit photography project)(13 Sept. - 20 Oct.) Form als Ziel mündet immer in Formalismus (Mies van der Rohe) Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, Germany; (7 June -10 Aug.) Painting In An Expanding Field, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, organized by Saul Ostrow Square Bubbles, Nott Memorial Art Museum, Union College, Schenectady, NY; curated by Arthur Gibbons Painting Outside Painting: 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; curated by Terrie Sultan (Dec.), cat.

Her new paintings go farther, they turn the rectangle and square into cyphers of the human figure and they do so not by constructing a geometric mask, but by loosening up the line so that form bends and sways a bit like a sentient being reacting to its environment.»

And I think it had very much to do with -LSB-...] I was bored with just painting on rectangles and squares.

Conceptual artist Wolhandler uses house paint and pencil to create messy but luminous squares which do not contain, but rather radiate, their color outward.

Nor did he create elegant perceptual conundrums out of solid black squares like Ad Reinhardt, nor structural pronouncements about what constitutes a painting, which is what young Frank Stella articulated with a 1958 - 1960 series of black - and - white striped canvases.

Reinhardt describes these paintings as: «A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no - contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free - hand, painted surface (glossless, textureless, non-linear, no hard - edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings — a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting — an object that is self - conscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art (absolutely no anti-art).»

In the square painting «I Dream of Spring» (2017), done in acrylic, there is a particularly pleasurable weaving together of three progressively lighter gray bands, which start at the painting's left edge, separated by a maroon, magenta, and pink stripe.

Once you know the square footage of the property, you can figure there is a basic cost for flooring, paint, appliances, kitchen / bathroom, so you can come up with a basic idea of what it would cost to go through the house and «do everything».

Still lots of work to do, (landscaping, square columns on the porch, shakes on the gables, shutters on the windows, not to mention the front door is still unsealed / stained / painted and there's a bunch of old paint that needs to be removed from the front of the steps.